2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RSS - Retirement & Social Security
Article 14 - (500 - 520) COORDINATED-ESCALATOR RETIREMENT PLAN
507-D - Disability benefits.

 
    §  507-d. Disability benefits. A county may elect to make the benefits
  provided herein available to the sheriff, undersheriff, deputy  sheriffs
  who  are  engaged  directly  in criminal law enforcement activities, and
  correction officers who are in the employ of the county. Notwithstanding
  any provision of this chapter or any  general  or  special  law  to  the
  contrary,  any  condition  of impairment of health caused by diseases of
  the heart, resulting in the disability or death to a member  covered  by
  this  section,  presently  employed  and  who  shall have sustained such
  disability  while  so  employed,  who  successfully  passed  a  physical
  examination  on  entry into service as a member covered by this section,
  which examination failed to disclose evidence of any  disease  or  other
  impairment  of  the  heart,  shall  be  presumptive evidence that it was
  incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless  the  contrary
  can be proved by competent evidence.